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Accoeding to Dave Filoni, and Pablo Hidalgo, all LFL departments are working together, and all future content has to go through the story team, which has paople from film, tv, books, and comics, as well as games. From now on their are no more canon levels. The heart of the content is the PT, TCW, REBELS, and the OT, everything new will be built around that core.

This a thousand times. If you have any questions about canon refer to this answer every single time.

I didn't think they would count what we can see on our TV's as the same as what we have to read in books and comics.

What he is saying is that the PT, the OT, TCW and Rebels is 100% pure unadulterated canon. The story team uses those core things as they tell new stories. In other words the Inquisitors they used in the EU won't be what we see in Rebels.

Aight, where is this "from now on there are no more canon levels" thing coming from?

Is that a verbatim statement by Hidalgo, Chee, Filoni, Lucas or some other such person of equivalent authority? Is that a statement they made on video or in an interview, or in a tweet they posted, or in any other thing officially put out by them?

And if so where, what, why, when? Is there a link for this stuff?

Ooooorrr is this just more fan interpretation or peoples thoughts or spin being passed off as "fact"?

Aight, where is this "from now on there are no more canon levels" thing coming from?

Is that a verbatim statement by Hidalgo, Chee, Filoni, Lucas or some other such person of equivalent authority? Is that a statement they made on video or in an interview, or in a tweet they posted, or in any other thing officially put out by them?

And if so where, what, why, when? Is there a link for this stuff?

Ooooorrr is this just more fan interpretation or peoples thoughts or spin being passed off as "fact"?

Well the first place it popped up in is the Essential Reader's Guide. Pablo and Leland talk about in the newest Forcecast. Pablo has Tweeted about it numerous times.

Quick question in regards to this topic, is Almec just expressing an opinion about Jango Fett in the Mandalore Plot episode or revealing a canon fact?

An opinion. You can find discussion regarding this topic in this thread here. In particular, these two posts, by Tado-Fett and Trebor Sabreon, respectively, should answer you question quite succinctly:

I don't know why this is constantly being brought up. Nothing in that particular episode goes against Open Seasons. As per that storyline, Jango Fett wasn't born on Mandalore. He was born and raised on Concord Dawn, and was adopted into the True Mandalorian culture by Jaster Mereel once Death Watch murdered Jango's family.

When Almec denied Jango was Mandalorian, he was trying to deny there was a resurgent warrior faction or that Death Watch was a concern. As others said, it was convenient for him to downplay it when speaking to Obi Wan. In any case, speaking literally, Jango wasn't from Mandalore, so what he said is true, from a certain point of view.

Open Seasons is evidently held as canon in Clone Wars, as Filoni intentionally had them incorporate many elements from that particular story into the series. Amongst others, these include Death Watch, their motivations, the Death Watch symbol, Pre Viszla being of the same clan as Tor Viszla, some of the background about Mandalore, and the comment about Jango not being Mandalorian, etc. I think Open Seasons and the show work together quite well.

Obi-Wan states he encountered a man wearing Mandalorian armor. Almec dismisses Jango as a common bounty hunter and explains that he doesn't know how he could have acquired that armor. If Almec is not dismissing Jango as being unaffiliated with Mandalore and its culture, then he isn't even addressing anything that Obi-Wan says.

While I of course see how one could take the conversation as such, I respectfully disagree that it's the only way to view the scene.

Let us consider the wider discussion at hand. Almec says "All of our warriors were exiled to our moon Concordia. They died out years ago." Kenobi then says "Are you certain? I recently encountered...," which is then followed by Almec's infamous quote. It seems that from the context of this conversation, Almec is most concerned that he convince Kenobi that Mandalorian warriors are a thing of the past, and that the important point to get across to Obi-Wan concerning Jango is that Fett does not represent the existence of a newfound, larger Mandalorian warrior movement, rather a lone-wolf, an independent contractor who somehow obtained a warrior's set of armor (so to Almec, there's wiggle room enough for the New Mandalorians to keep telling themselves that they are not yet dealing with a full-blown political crisis). So to me, the argument can be made that the distinction is not whether Jango was Mandalorian at all, rather whether Fett should be viewed a Mandalorian warrior, proper, or a more common Mandalorian bounty hunter.

I'm afraid I'm not entirely convinced I was able to state my position all that clearly. My point being that there are different ways to interpret the conversation. "Certain p.o.v.," and all that.

Thank you Circular Logic, I've pretty much had all those same arguments with myself over time. The sad thing is that now I don't know which version I prefer - the Mandalorians have been messed with so much I can't get a handle on them anymore.

the only way to see what survives from pre Story Group, is see what comes in the future, a friend of mine from Roqoodepot.com has told me that LFL has told it's writers, that they are forbidden from going to wookieepedia, it's now part of their contracts, they need info, they can only go to Leland Chee, or Pablo Hidalgo.